Paul L

Perhaps my last message for several weeks. My ISP is Excite@home through Rogers cable here in Canada. There are others in Canada such as Shaw using the same ISP cable service. Excite went Chapter 11 in September and legal rulings yesterday in California concluded that Excite could cut off service here in Canada except to Calgary, Alberta. So I may be out of here for several weeks. I have converted my e-mail but if things last beyond 3:00am tomorrow, are you happy with your telephone high-speed links? Anyone convert to Bell Sympatico? I have heard nothing but bad news about that service. Hope to see you soon, whatever comes about :) .


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chevyman

Me too. I have a dial up isp as a backup. I can give you free internet access if you give me you area code if you want. Drop me a line

Smokehouse69

Paul,
I've got *** Internet cable down here in Texas and they also use Excite for some of their cable sytems. I'm not sure if I am going to be affected or not, but I suspect I will be. I have heard that *** has been working on their own system since September so they can get off of Excite.
Heck I might be cut off with you.
As for how do I like my cable service, "It Suckz!!" Just like the commercials for DSL have been saying. When I first got it, it was blazingly fast, but as more and more people got on it, the speed dropped and dropped. Last week it actually slowed to less than 33K modem speed (I ran a speed test.)
It is really too bad that the telephone company here is so out of it. I'd get DSL in a minute if they offered it in my area (they offer it, but you have to be within 2 1/2 miles of the CO (central office) or an remote replicator. Two years ago the phone company told me I could get DSL within 90 days. They are still saying 90 days. Southwestern Bell Suckz, too!

Paul L

Yes, they got me off Excite for my e-mail in a panic but general access I do not know. See you (or will not) in the morning. I will try! There are some 420,000 Rogers@home subscribers that will be in limbo tonight.

Paul L

Oh Dear. Thanks for the offer but do I have to hear that modem doing its thing again. In fact, I do not have one now. Seriously, that is a kind offer. Tomorrow morning we shall see. I really do not want to go to an AOL-type service. I have been spoiled by the LanCity cable modem. It is fast. Let's see what Decemember 2 brings. I may be still here. The high-tech wizards may find a solution. They do drive C5s after all so have some class ;) .

paso

Paul I have sympatico 's high speed (QLO is business only) and not had any problems. Of coarse Sasktel is slightly ahead of other phone company's But I guess they are all part of stencor. Out west here the @home.com's all switched to shaw.com.

67HEAVEN

Paul,

Nine months ago I switched from Rogers@Home to Sympatico Hi-Speed out of pure frustration with poor service and "who-cares" attitude to telephone support from Rogers.

With cable I was always having eMail or connection problems - absolutely NO reliability.

With Bell DSL..................one temporary eMail outage in nine months!

Amazing! :cheers:

MotorHead

I have been very pleased with Rogers cable internet. It has been working very
reliably for a year. Paul79 your internet will work tommorrow they just switch servers and that's it. May be a few gliches but they will be straightend out :D

Paul L

I am still here...for now. Looks from the morning newspaper that Excite cut off service to 850,000 customers of AT&T Broadband in the USA.

paso

That's good news Paul I couldn't imagine you trying to post all the pictures you have at your finger tips using dial up :)

Paul L

Paso,
The funny thing is that my car is in storage and I cannot take pics of it. But after 2 1/2 years here in the Forum you can pretty well anticipate the questions so I take what I believe will be useful pics before it goes in storage ;) .

Ganey

Paul

That's good you're still on.

Steve

If you or anyone else needs a rec.- I have Earthlink which includes Mindspring & Sprynet which is very good. They say they are NO. 1.
http://www.earthlink.net or (800) 395-8425
Say GaneyS@sprynet.com sent you.

This reminds me of the time a new radio station came on the air & said they were the No. 2 radio station in the whole world ! Said they were sure they were No. 2 since everyone else was No. 1.

:cheers:

DCShark

Paul
I've used Bell Sympatico exclusively for years and have never had a problem. The high speed version is excellant and surprisingly :D very fast. I'm using a P11 333 so my computer is not blazingly fast. Sign up it's worth every penny.
Don

Paul L

Thanks Ganey. Don, I am thinking seriously about Bell. I have had six service outages in the last two hours and now I can't print messages. Something about a script error??? Cable service has always been spotty but Bell certainly had problems about a year ago. Perhaps they finally got things cleaned up.